Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cartoonists when they'grew up, Milt Caniff never missed a day of Mutt & Jeff or Polly and Her Pals. But the Chicago Tribune's prize old political crosshatcher, John T. McCutcheon, was his ideal. Milt's, father took him west in 1916 and nine-year-old Milton worked for a short time as a child extra in two-reel movies. At twelve he created (for family circulation) his first cartoon, something known as Si Plug...
Chained Seal. At 37, Milton Caniff was a widely imitated, $70,000-a-year success. His Terry strip was on the radio; a Douglas Fairbanks Jr. movie was in the works. Why give it all up? For a reason of his own, Caniff wanted more. In Florida, when he was 18, he was bitten by a mosquito and got phlebitis, an inflammation of the veins that made the Army-and insurance doctors-turn him down. Because of his quick-clotting blood, says Caniff, "even a bad bump on the leg could bump...
Retooling for Steve. In the airy, book-lined studio at New City, Milton Caniff cleared away the oriental props that had served Terry. The morgue was crammed with Americana, for a change of scene: state guides, the Rivers series, hundreds of photographs of city streets and airports. Marshall Field, no comics expert, had no advice to give, but Caniff knew what the publishers and readers wanted: a strip with all the thrills of Terry and nearly all the sexiness of Lace rolled into...
...Yardling aggregation setting the style for their elder brothers, topped the Bruins 44 to 31 earlier in the evening. But here Milton Brier of the foe breast-stroked his 200 yard way for a time of 2:32.9 and the record mark of the first year Providence visitors...
...years of undefeated wrestling teams at Milton Academy went by the boards last Saturday when a powerful Yardling grappling team took six of eight bouts to gain a decisive 20 to 8 victory over the prep-schoolers and hand them their first defeat in over fifty meets. Ray Rogers, an ace grappler at Milton last year, captained the Freshmen in their first official meet of the season on the Milton Academy mats...